Naples Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Stanley Bryant
Naples, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Yes, the bigger mangrove snapper are inshore and near offshore right now. The redfish and snook have been plentiful and willing to eat live and artificial bait.

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Stanley Bryant Naples, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Yes, the bigger mangrove snapper are inshore and near offshore right now. The redfish and snook have been plentiful and willing to eat live and artificial bait.

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Kyle Harmon
Cape Coral, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Big red snapper have been all over out deep. Seeing a lot of black fin tuna.

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Kyle Harmon Cape Coral, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Big red snapper have been all over out deep. Seeing a lot of black fin tuna.

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Brandon Douberly
Bartow, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

The weather is heating up and so is the fishing. These big hungry redfish and snook are giving us some really fun days and giving us some unbelievable fights. Using white bait on a 3/0 hook and 25 lb monofilament leader fishing oyster bar edges, mangrove islands and beaches. Bait...

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Brandon Douberly Bartow, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

The weather is heating up and so is the fishing. These big hungry redfish and snook are giving us some really fun days and giving us some unbelievable fights. Using white bait on a 3/0 hook and 25 lb monofilament leader fishing oyster bar edges, mangrove islands and beaches. Bait is getting a little smaller and once we see the schools of little greenbacks the snapper fishing will begin to heat up inshore. The fishing is phenomenal, we are seeing large groups of upper slot and over slot redfish and snook and they’re hungry and giving us some fun days on the water.

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Kyle Harmon
Cape Coral, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

The grouper bite has been really really good the best I have seen in years. We are getting a lot of Red Grouper over 30 inches 20lb range. American red snapper are in but the fish have been a little scattered. A lot of big Mangrove snappers being caught.

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Kyle Harmon Cape Coral, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

The grouper bite has been really really good the best I have seen in years. We are getting a lot of Red Grouper over 30 inches 20lb range. American red snapper are in but the fish have been a little scattered. A lot of big Mangrove snappers being caught.

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Ariel Alejo
Loxahatchee, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Triple tails moving in. Trout and grey snapper bite still strong. Redfish are still in the witness protection program. some snook bite.

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Ariel Alejo Loxahatchee, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Triple tails moving in.
Trout and grey snapper bite still strong.
Redfish are still in the witness protection program.
some snook bite.

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Ariel Alejo
Loxahatchee, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

trout, triple tail and snook are starting to bite a bit more, grey snapper and some sheeps are still active

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Ariel Alejo Loxahatchee, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

trout, triple tail and snook are starting to bite a bit more, grey snapper and some sheeps are still active

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Brandon Douberly
Bartow, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Nearshore has been our go-to all week long with calm water and winds. We are fishing between 6 and 9 miles out in 40-60 feet of water using live shrimp. Lanes and mangrove snapper, sheepshead, white grunt, red and gag grouper have been our main targets and we have been...

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Brandon Douberly Bartow, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Nearshore has been our go-to all week long with calm water and winds. We are fishing between 6 and 9 miles out in 40-60 feet of water using live shrimp. Lanes and mangrove snapper, sheepshead, white grunt, red and gag grouper have been our main targets and we have been catching a boat full of everything. Groups have been keeping me busy baiting hooks, it’s typical to get one fish for every bait that hits the bottom and we’ve got some good fighters out there for light tackle. A two ounce knocker rig on a 3/0 circle hook and 40 lb leader has been the setup that has been working best for these nearshore species. We take advantage of these calm days to go nearshore, they don’t come often enough this time of year and right on schedule the next week or so is looking to be windy and choppy in the deep water. Finding the window to go is imperative.

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Brandon Douberly
Bartow, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Weather has been good at times windy a lot of the time but we are managing. Targeting sheepshead, redfish and trout inshore, days we are able to go a few miles offshore we are getting lane snapper, grunt, tripletail, red grouper and triggerfish.

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Brandon Douberly Bartow, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Weather has been good at times windy a lot of the time but we are managing. Targeting sheepshead, redfish and trout inshore, days we are able to go a few miles offshore we are getting lane snapper, grunt, tripletail, red grouper and triggerfish.

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